a bachelor's degree in health/medical prep programs is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #96 out of 363 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Washington to determine which ones were the best for health/medical prep programs students pursuing a bachelor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 91 bachelor's degrees in health/medical prep programs to qualified students.
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Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to health/medical prep programs students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other health/medical prep programs students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How much debt health/medical prep programs students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized health/medical prep programs related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for health/medical prep programs students working on their bachelor's degree.
The medical prep school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Health/Medical Prep Programs Bachelor's Degree Schools in Washington.
In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat.
Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.
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It's hard to beat Western Washington University if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in health/medical prep programs. Located in the small city of Bellingham, WWU is a public university with a fairly large student population.
Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the medical prep program state that they receive average early career wages of $29,238.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
by our College Data Analytics Team
